February 2015 - NZNOG - lists.nznog.org

Loading of IRD.govt.nz taking 30-50 seconds of late
by Barry Murphy 19 Feb '15

19 Feb '15

Morning all, Wondering if anyone else is noticing that the ird website is taking quite some time to load, has been happening since late last week or earlier this week judging from reports. Tested from our network and also on 4G from Spark, same issue. Looking at a debug of the page, we get a 301 after 25 seconds, then we get a 24 second delay for a 200 OK then things start loading a bit later out of a cache from the looks. If anyone that looks after the IRD infrastructure is on the list, feel free to reply offlist. Many thanks -- Kind regards, Barry Murphy / Chief Operating Officer

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increasing number of blacklisted NZ public IP addresses
by Daniel Christie 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Hello all, I'm working for a small web/mail hosting company. I've recently noticed a lot of blacklisted IP addresses from NZ based ISPs being dished out, part of our intrusion prevention methods involve denying connections from these addresses. How do these blacklisted IP addresses get unlisted? Is it the responsibility of the customers of these ISPs or it is the responsibility of the ISP? Daniel Christie

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ATS Switch for 1-3 Devices
by Mark Foster 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Hiya folks, Looking for a cost-effective solution to automatically switch a non-redundantly-powered device between redundant power supplies. For example running a single switch between a UPS-backed power supply and a direct-mains power supply, so that I have some tolerance should the mains supply to the UPS fail (or the UPS itself). Essentially something like this: http://www.cdlnz.com/index.html?do=viewproduct&p=NR605&code=RP-ATS But i'm looking for something relatively small and for a relatively low number of devices (say anywhere from 1 to 3). I'm also not necessarily looking for >10A 240V; the gear that'll be being run, is quite low current. Anyone got any recommendations? Thanks Mark.

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by Skeeve Stevens 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

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Re: [nznog] Can anyone help
by Glen Eustace 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Our issue has been going on now for a couple of weeks now but has been getting slowly worse. I don’t believe the issue reported in the Herald about mobile is related (but who knows :-) > On 12/02/2015, at 7:39 am, Robert M <robert(a)kneedrag.org> wrote: > > Spark has been having issues, apprently they have been resolved this morning. > > Don't have the details off hand. > > Regards, > > Rob > > On 12/02/2015 7:09 AM, "Glen Eustace" <geustace(a)godzone.net.nz <mailto:geustace(a)godzone.net.nz>> wrote: > Hi, > > I am wearing my Massey Uni hat and we are struggling with an intermittent number (though its growing) of random SIP telephone call failures from the PSTN. I realise that this isn’t a telephony support line but with the proliferation of VoIP I am hoping some of the people on the list might be able to help. > > We are getting call failures to completely random Massey DDI’s, Spark have traced the calls and are confident they leave their network and Vodafone are doing the same and do not believe the calls enter theirs. The call’s terminate on a system which plays the following voice prompt twice and then ends the call. > > “Your alternative network call is unable to proceed at this time, please try again later”. > > The voice is a pleasant Kiwi (though I’m not a linguist so might not be) female. > > If anyone can put their hand up and say, "yes that’s one of ours" or anyone has heard or know where this recording might be coming from it might help. The calls are definitely going somewhere and if we, Massey/Spark/Vodafone can work out the where it might help pinpoint the how. > > I know this is a long shot but we are running out of ideas. > > Thanks > > Glen > > > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Glen and Rosanne Eustace, > GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., > P.O. Box 8020, Palmerston North, New Zealand 4446 > Ph: +64 6 357 8168 <tel:%2B64%206%20357%208168>, Fax: +64 6 357 8165 <tel:%2B64%206%20357%208165>, Mob: +64 27 542 4015 <tel:%2B64%2027%20542%204015> > > "Specialising in providing low-cost professional Internet Services since 1997" > > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz <mailto:NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog <http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog> >

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Bi-lateral peering sessions
by Tim Hoffman 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Kind folk of New Zealand, A while ago, when I was at Citylink, we had some very interesting discussions on what the community believed the role of the route server infrastructure was in our exchanges. At the time, Citylink had announced that they were no longer going to require every operator to submit prefix lists to them for enforcement. In my opinion, Citylink moved to the correct way of acting; not providing a level of route filtering for the community, but instead putting it onto each ISP to enforce their own BGP security. It was interesting to me how much people had placed a reliance on the route servers and their enforcing a route policy on behalf of them, rather than taking responsibility for this themselves. I recall that in this discussion on the list Dean Pemberton, Michael Fincham, and Andy Linton made some excellent points about this. One of the interesting things about New Zealand and IXs is the lack of bi-lats or routing control used across the peering exchanges. In many IXs worldwide, the route servers are only considered to be the initial stage of setting up on an IX (if you used them at all). An ISP or content provider would reach out to all the peers that they did any level of traffic to and request a bi-lateral BGP session, which they would enforce their own route policies on, and filter routes in both directions on this session to appropriately manipulate traffic. In light of the issues this afternoon on APE, I wonder all of us putting some effort into bi-lats with our major peers is worthy of discussion? Also interesting is the attached graph of aggregate traffic on AKL-IX, showing the value of having multiple IXs in Auckland for resiliency. Cheers, Hoff [image: Inline image 2]

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Can anyone help
by Glen Eustace 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi, I am wearing my Massey Uni hat and we are struggling with an intermittent number (though its growing) of random SIP telephone call failures from the PSTN. I realise that this isn’t a telephony support line but with the proliferation of VoIP I am hoping some of the people on the list might be able to help. We are getting call failures to completely random Massey DDI’s, Spark have traced the calls and are confident they leave their network and Vodafone are doing the same and do not believe the calls enter theirs. The call’s terminate on a system which plays the following voice prompt twice and then ends the call. “Your alternative network call is unable to proceed at this time, please try again later”. The voice is a pleasant Kiwi (though I’m not a linguist so might not be) female. If anyone can put their hand up and say, "yes that’s one of ours" or anyone has heard or know where this recording might be coming from it might help. The calls are definitely going somewhere and if we, Massey/Spark/Vodafone can work out the where it might help pinpoint the how. I know this is a long shot but we are running out of ideas. Thanks Glen -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen and Rosanne Eustace, GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., P.O. Box 8020, Palmerston North, New Zealand 4446 Ph: +64 6 357 8168 <tel:%2B64%206%20357%208168>, Fax: +64 6 357 8165 <tel:%2B64%206%20357%208165>, Mob: +64 27 542 4015 <tel:%2B64%2027%20542%204015> "Specialising in providing low-cost professional Internet Services since 1997"

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nz Registrar
by Ryan Finnesey 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

For the members of the group that have gone though the authorisation as a .nz Registrar process I was wondering if you would be willing to share there exsperence on or offlist. Cheers Ryqn Sent using OWA for iPad

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Palmerston North Wireless - Frequency conflict
by Dave Mill 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi all If anyone in Palmerston North (or nearby) has recently fired up a 40Mhz wide channel centered around 5640Mhz could you please get in contact. It's very likely we could save each other a lot of grief. Cheers Dave

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Help with Internet / Wireless connectivity near Whangamata
by Darren Moss 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Evening All, I have a location which can see Whangamata, however there is no DSL service and I need to setup some repeater equipment at this location with decent connectivity to relay data. Is there anybody on-list (or someone you know, WISP, etc) who can help with a wireless link from (pretty much anywhere in) Whangamata back to this location about 15klms north ? We are elevated and can see Whangamata. Happy to setup WiFi type equipment, etc. Many thanks, Darren.

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